3 x 5--sealed this one to a tiny piece of board so that I could paint the mask in white acrylic, and tried to do something more stylized. Didn't quite work out--I think it requires a better (or at least different) design sense than mine.

This is probably the only time I'm ever going to do fan art for an anime/manga, and it's extremely crappy. Yay me. Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry." If passed, the proposition would change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. A new section would be added stating "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Sigh. Only I would make an anime into a political statement.The bottom part is a little smudged. It says:"VOTE NO ON PROP 8or you'll have angry lover boys after you(and their yaoi fangirls)"Sharpie and pencil on paper.

rainbow painter trial. i don't know if i just don't know how to use it, or there's no sensitivity settings for my tablet. it was the difficulties i faced with mouse drawing all over again. okay that was a lie, nothing is as difficult as drawing with a mouse.

She was horrid. Grown up parentless and with little to no morals, she was a merciless twisted mess. Wicked, even.And yet she looked like an angel. The both of them, did. Her and her younger brother by a few seconds.The old woman said they were the sky. Their hair were like strands of sunshine that were hidden away from everyone else. Hardly anyone could see the sun anymore. The sky was too thick and dark to see the sun properly. Their eyes were like the blue out of a picture book sky. Clear and bright, and when they shook their heads their hair would fall all around their eyes and with their pale skin it would look like the sun was hitting the clouds and the sky would be so beautiful in that moment.They spent most of their days inside. Locked away with that old woman, waiting for her age to finally catch up with her. They didn't like the outside world that much.

The (hopefully finished) design of one of my characters at various ages. The third one is still her, it's just her in a wig and contacts. Ages are roughly five-ish, nine or ten-ish, twelve-ish, around sixteen, 18-19, and mid thirties.

Writing system is the most important tool to spread the high and noble knowledge of Indonesian people since the ancient time. Let me take you on a journey to see some of the writing systems in Indonesia.

Javanese is a syllabic alphabet - each letter has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels can be indicated using a variety of diacritics which appear above, below, in front of or after the main letter.

Each consonants has two forms: the aksara form is used at the beginning of a syllable, while the pasangan form, which usually appears below the aksara form, is used for the second consonant of a consonant cluster and mutes the vowel of the aksara.

There are a number of special letters called aksara murda or aksara gedhe (great or important letters) which are used for honorific purposes, such as to write the names of respected people.

The order of the consonants makes the following saying, "Hana caraka, data sawala padha jayanya, maga bathanga" which means "There were (two) emissaries, they began to fight, their valor was equal, they both fell dead". Ouch!

Writing system is the most important tool to spread the high and noble knowledge of Indonesian people since the ancient time. Let me take you on a journey to see some of the writing systems in Indonesia.

The people of south Sulawesi were not only known for their firce warriors (buginese=boogeyman!), but also their knowledge.

The Lontara and Makasar scripts are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India. The name lontara derives from the Malay word for the palmyra palm, lontar, the leaves of which are the traditional material for manuscripts in India, South East Asia and Indonesia.
Type of writing system: syllabic alphabet/alphasyllabary
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
In common with other Brahmi-derived syllabic alphabets, each consonant has an inherent vowel [a], other vowels are indicated by adding diacritics above or below a consonant.

The script above the girl is the Lontara script, and the script below her is the Makassar script.

Writing system is the most important tool to spread the high and noble knowledge of Indonesian people since the ancient time. Let me take you on a journey to see some of the writing systems in Indonesia.

First, let’s visit the Java Island and the neighboring island of Bali. Sanskrit and Pallava were the writing systems of the past, but the Javanesse were able to create their own writing system which is the “Hanacaraka” or the “Carakan”. Interestengly enough, the order of Hanacaraka itself bears a story.
So strong was the Javanesse influence around the Nusantara, the Hanacaraka/Carakan was also used by their neighbours and vessel kingdoms.The Balinesse Carakan has enough variety to distinct their Carakan from the Javanesse Carakan. There are additional consonants in the Balinesse Carakan, and they are used for writing words from the Kawi (Old Javanese) language.

But did the entire Java Island use the Carakan?Well, that’s debatable. Let’s visit the western Java to the home of Sundanesse people, the cunning neighbor of th Javanesse people. Subjected to the might of Jaanesse empires, the Javanesse influences in the Sundanesse society is clear in the way of the culture, clothing, language and yes, writing system too. Hanacaraka were also used to write Sundanesse. But the Sundanesse were able to develop their own script too!Kudos for that.
Sunda Kuna script is much simpler than the Hanacaraka (thank goodness). The rules are simple:

The Sunda Kuna script is a syllabic alphabet/alphasyllabary.
Each consonant has an inherent vowel (it goes like this: ka, kha, qa, xa, ga, nga, ca, ja, za, nya, ta, da, na, pa, fa, va, ba, ma, ya, ra, la, wa, sa, sya, ha). Err..I’m not sure whether that’s the original order, but whatever!
Other vowels or the absence of vowels can be indicated by using diacritics which appear above, below, before, after or before and after the consonant letter. Simple huh?
The direction of writing is left to right, in a horizontal line.

Because I’m currently living in Bandung, I’m proud of the aksara sunda/sunda kuna. Unlike the other Indonesian scripts, it’s hard to find information on Sunda Kuna. I got these neat papers on Sundanesse Script from the Sundanesse Culture Society themselves. Well, I kinda have stolen it from them, hahaha.